Bill spins Hillary's Bosnia misstatement

If you are an Obama supporter, you appreciate the fact that Bill Clinton is keeping this story in the forefront.  The longer the networks talk about it, the more that Hillary's honesty will be an issue.  This was Bill Clinton yesterday:

"You know, I got tickled the other day. A lot of the way this wholecampaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot offulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she wasexhausted, misstated — and immediately apologized for it — whathappened to her in Bosnia  in 1995 [sic]. Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up.

"Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and General Wesley Clark –who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers, who hadto ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to gothe regular, safe way –  both defended her because they pointed outthat when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to thebulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to puttheir flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. Andeverywhere they went, they were covered by Apache helicopters. So theyjust abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

"Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even thenshe was interested in our troops. And I think she was the first firstlady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she'drobbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them,when they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 atnight, too.”

Of course she'd go to the bullet proof part of the plane.  She was the First Lady.  I wouldn't be surprised if they made her do that during other trips as well.  Really though -- if there is ever a bullet proof part of a plane, and if the First Lady or any other elected officials are flying, why would they not be seated there?